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Friday, May 22, 2015

Stop causing more karoshi with zero overtime pay, people protest against labor deregulations

Nearly 2,500 people joined a rally on May
14 in Tokyo to speak against labor deregulations under Abe government that is
feared to increase more karoshi. Unionists from across Japan and across
different confederations of Japan’s labor unions--Rengo, Zenroren and
Zenrokyo—expressed their concerns and anger over the
dispatch law, which is expected to create more casual workers, and lifting
eight-hour work restrictions. “Deregulating labor standards law and
overtime work restrictions is a backward move,” TERANISHI Shoko, whose
husband committed suicide over 4,000 hours of work a year, spoke. “I want the government to aim for zero karoshi rather than zero overtime
pay so as never to see another family like us saddened by a loss of family
members.”